Jay Heflin with The Hill is reporting that Congressman and former US Senate candidate, J.D. Hayworth, has been chosen to be a national advocate for the TEA Party. For those who have followed Congressman Hayworth’s career, this is an excellent choice by leadership of the TEA Party movement
In 2009, prior to Rick Santelli’s famous words on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile, Hayworth was instrumental in giving rise to the Arizona TEA Party by lending his voice and by giving voice to leaders here in Arizona. As a broadcaster at KFYI, Hayworth promoted grassroots and TEA Party gatherings across Arizona including the famous 6,000 person march on the Sate Capitol on April 15, 2009.
Now as the TEA Party continues to make progress in States like Alaska, Delaware, Kentucky and Nevada, Hayworth’s understanding of the issues and his political redemption from a Congress that once lost its way will give further credence to this important American political movement.
What a joke.
I can only hope that whoever is paying for JD Hayworth to be the national Tea Party spokesman gets a good return on his investment.
Then I would ask, which Tea Party is naming him their spokesman?
And THEN I would ask, don’t you folks have the ability to hyper-link?
Congratulations JD! They chose the best person for the job.
A genuine and true reflection of the Tea Party movement.
Scotti, beam me up! Quick!
This Horst Kraus?
http://sonoranalliance.com/2007/01/24/trouble-in-paradise/
“…..Horst Kraus testified on behalf of a previously convicted child molester in a case involving a young boy at his nudist camp during a trial in October 2000. As a witness for the defense, Kraus testified to the good character of the defendant and the “untruthfulness” of the victim. The defendant, Owen Thompson, is now serving two life sentences for dangerous crimes against children at Shangri-La Ranch.
Not so. The Tea Party is a movement that needs no front man. Everyone speaks for themselves.
Either you get it, or you’re going to get it. Besides, there is no Tea Party “Party”.
The operative word is “spokesman”. JD is an excellent orator, it makes sense. The real question is there such a thing as the National Tea Party.
Tea Party organization is an oxymoron. The The Tea Party is really a term used to describe a patchwork of disenfranchised people who are drawn together not so much for what they believe in common but rather for what they oppose, and there is a difference. It is the old “an enemy of my enemy is my friend” type of deal. Richard gets it and so does Thane.
Nightcrawler
“The Tea Party is really a term used to describe a patchwork of disenfranchised people who are drawn together not so much for what they believe in common but rather for what they oppose.”
I imagine that your statement is what liberal Democrats pray when they go to bed, that is if any of them do pray.
I suspect that the supporters of the onslaught of Senatoral candidates (Paul, Rubio, Angle, Lee, Buck, O’Donnell, Miller), goveratorial candidates (haley, LaPage, Paladino, etc.), and on and on might beg to differ. I know that establishment moderate Republicans have found out personally how painfully real and effective the Tea Party is.
The Hill Story is bogus, and that journalist is a financial/tax reporter, so maybe he doesn’t know what he is saying. There is not, nor will their ever be a Tea Party leader!
The South is risen Alleluia!!!
Maybe he can do a Tea Party infomercial about no more free money from the government….
I like JD, in fact, I voted for him. But the “spokesperson” for the Tea Party movement? You’ve got to be kidding me. When he ran against McCain he didn’t get a huge wave of support from Tea Party candidates nationwide like many other candidates have gotten. That in itself should say something. This would be a bad move for the Tea Party movement. If there is going to be a “spokesperson” I would think it should be someone within the movement. Not an
ex politician.
I personally think the story is bogus and the “journalist” is just trying to stir things up.
JD is an able orator for sure. But that Hill post would have been more meaningful had it come from named sources rather than Jay Heflin’s hearsay and errata. In 2008, people voiced a desire for a third party, but no one had means+wherewithal to pull one together. Fortunately, our de facto third party is the tea party movement which has had more influence than all the other alternatives combined; and it already has several “national” spokesmen. I hope it manages to remain just a movement since that satisfies the founding ideals better than asses and elephants. Tea party or not, anytime politicos “organize” nationally, we can count on factions like we saw going into the August primaries. It’s good enough that there are smart, intelligent, articulate individuals who aren’t afraid to say what we’re thinking, and I count JD among them. But voters don’t need more spokesmen, just better governance.
Go JD Go!!!! Congrats if the story is correct. I heard it on terry’s show last night.
He is a loser, regardless of his stated positions on the issues, and he will guarantee that the Tea Party becomes a loser.
What moles in the mix are promoting this suicide?
Sure, Mr. Pork speaks for all tea partiers.
I would think some people would not want to make fools of themselves in public..oh, that’s right, they are using aliases. Anyway,
I am thrilled that JD has a chance to stay in the game where he belongs. He will continue to be a force to be reckoned with in the years to come.
Can’t wait to have Molly Pitcher opens her big prochoice rino mouth on this. And for all the morons who supported deaky doo it was the mud and muck that both he and McFlipflop pitched that caused the great unwashed to stay home and not vote while the big bucks bought the fence sitting ‘know nothing’ Republicans to vote for same old establishement failure.
The Tea Party having a spokesman? How? Who is going to decide what gets said? I thought that the Tea Party was made up of average citizens who were concerned about the future of the country.
The members are the spokesmen. Millions of people around the country are vocal about an out of control government. If we need a spokesman, do we then need a lobbyist? A central office? ABoard of Directors? Should we elect officers? The answer is no!!
We are trying to decentralize power in Washington and bring it back to the States and to the people. We also are working to make all levels of government accountable and efficient. Centralizing our effort, in this case, will dilute our influence.
I say we don,t need a spokesman/leader, and certantly not a politician. I voted for J.D. Hayworth to be a Senator, not a spokesman.
This report is inaccurate. JD is not going to be a spokesman for the Tea Parties. It was confirmed as such today.
Thane Eichenauer Says:
September 19th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
I can only hope that whoever is paying for JD Hayworth to be the national Tea Party spokesman gets a good return on his investment.
Then I would ask, which Tea Party is naming him their spokesman?
And THEN I would ask, don’t you folks have the ability to hyper-link?
Shane, don’t you wonder whether someone in the McCain camp paid J.D. to run so as to lose? No one has been able to ask the question “who put J.D. up?” Where was his support?
A review of the title above plainly reads, “Tea Party Advocate,” so “spokesman” is not correct. “Advocate” is in keeping with the grassroots decentralized popular focus of the Tea Parties.
The always central-planner Democrats keep pushing on the Tea Parties the Alien from Space lines of “Who’s your Leader? ” and needing a “spokesperson” instead of just listening to what Tea Party-attending individuals have to say. Americans can speak, they know what they want fixed and they don’t need a Democrat interpreter “expert” to mis-translate and twist everything they say.
GO JD GO. You are a good man who should be proud of his service to his country and the cause of all conservatives.
As “working” Americans we need people we can trust to defend our rights against the liberal, socialist unions and big government believers on both sides of the isle. Just keep the government off our backs and we will do the rest. OK JD?